Halo: Glasslands

Man, I hope the rest of the trilogy is as good as this book - Glasslands deserves to be recognised beyond the world of franchise fiction as a damn good sci fi novel in itself - multi-layered, considered, brooding - its got a lot of personality for a novel based on a video game.

Also - please keep Euan on this gig - his reading captures the whole thing perfectly.

Yes, this is a great continuation of the story started in Ghosts of Onyx.

Glasslands is written quite similarly to Ghosts of Onyx, continuing the story and expanding to include a great new cast of characters.

Characters are well defined by the distinct voices he uses for each one.

None stand out as the whole book was great.

Great, intense, suspenseful

*SPOILER* I have to say that when they brought Halsey away. Or maybe the scene when the Sanghilei (can't remember his name) got decked by Naomy... Naomi... Whatever.

Halsey's interrogation.

This book is an Amazing addition to the Halo Univeres and a major gap filler for Halo 3-Halo 4.

Yes and because it is a great way to pass the time and also I love the story.

Vaz was my favorite he was tough as nails with just enough compassion to make him really dangerous.

the accents made the story it made it very easy to fallow along with who was saying what.

I've enjoyed the entire Halo story, and Karen Traviss takes the story to a new level. Well laced with character building and humor, and less on the weapons and battle description (because lets face it, by now we know that stuff very well)

My favorite character would be Naomi. Ive always wanted to see a confidently humorous Spartan

all of them were very well done

Definitely! This is a great piece with a lot of backstory for the Halo canon. Any Halo fan would surely appreciate it!

I liked Dr. Halsey. Her interactions with the spartans as well as her superiors was great to see and enlightening as far as Halo backstory was concerned.

The part where The commanding office and Dr. Halsey explain about Red and Blue Spartan origins.

Yes fore sure!

Great story and great addition to the Halo realm.

So far this is my second least favorite of the Halo books (the flood is my least favorite).

This is my first book by Karen Travis.

Hard to say. It was probably one of the scenes with Admiral Parangosky.

No, but I did enjoy it.

I really didn't like the way Dr. Halsey was written. Chief Mendez either. Pretty jarring change from Ghost of Onyx.

If the narration was not monotone, I would have enjoyed this much better

BB, AI are always very interesting.

His monotone made it hard to digest the information contained in this book. It was nearly impossible to tell when characters were speaking aloud or in their own heads. His voice droned on and made me want to stop listening even though I wanted to finish the story.

The story was fine.

Performances of audio books need to be actual performances, not just readings. I should have just picked up the book at the store so I could have read it myself.

flowing,enjoyable, satisfying minimum 15 words??????? and they only ask for three words!

the other HALO books

it was OK

sure

no

This should be called "Crucify Halsey" rather than Glasslands as almost the entire story seems to be a vehicle for Traviss to replay time-worn cliches about govt abuses of power instead of the continuation of the Ghosts of Onyx. It seems as though she wrote this without reading any of the earlier stories. This reminds me of all the Atlantis myths and legends that grew out of Plato's mentioning of Atlantis, while only retaining a superficial relationship to the few lines mentioned by Plato. I found Traviss' version of Halo to be boring and uninteresting. In addition to being a waste of time and money, it's actually insulting to any fan of the game and the stories.